Haswell War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Haswell War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- south-clay-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Haswell War Memorial, St Paul's Churchyard, Church Street, DH6 2DT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 374 431
- Coordinates
- 54.782, -1.4193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Haswell War Memorial is a tall, polished grey granite structure located in the churchyard of St Paul’s Church. It features a small Latin cross atop a large, tapering pedestal, which stands on a two-stepped base made of granite for the upper step and concrete for the lower step. The plain entablature beneath the cornice is adorned with lightly incised patterns that are also repeated below the inscriptions.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the pedestal states, "GREATER LOVE HATH NO/ MAN THAN THIS, THAT/ A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS." This is followed by "ROLL OF HONOUR/ NAMES OF THE MEN/ FROM THE PARISH OF HASWELL/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR KING & COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919/ “THEIR BRIGHT SPIRITS STILL/ TENANT THE HEARTS OF THOSE/ WHO LOVED THEM. THEY LIE/ IMPERISHABLY FAIR, CROWNED/ WITH THE GARLANDS OF/ IMMORTAL YOUTH." The names of those commemorated are inscribed on the remaining three sides of the pedestal.
Local climate
Haswell War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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